With the coronavirus pandemic shuttering shops and causing millions of people to lose jobs, the crisis has also limited property owners’ ability to collect rents. The pain is universal. But as is often the case, the biggest companies may be best positioned to control their fates—and many of the world’s largest property owners have already announced steps designed to speed up the comeback. In early May real estate powerhouse Brookfield Asset Management said it would spend $5 billion to invest in struggling retail businesses. Brookfield owns 152 million square feet of retail space and another roughly 300 million of offices, hotels and apartments. Among publicly held real estate companies, Canadian Brookfield had, for the past year, the most assets ($324 billion), highest revenues ($69 billion), second-highest profits ($2.8 billion) and fourth-highest market cap ($51 billion). These results make Brookfield the biggest public real estate investment company on the planet for the third year running, according to the Forbes Global 2000 list for 2020. , the private equity giant that has a massive property portfolio but also invests in many other asset types. Each has approached the pandemic fallout differently. Equity Residential, for instance, halted evictions and rent increases for 90 days starting in March. Prologis launched a marketplace offering COVID-19 related deep cleaning and a reopening checklist. Not all efforts have been well received. In its May earnings release, Simon said it planned to open roughly half its 200 malls by May 15. It has since had to delay in Indiana and New York.